Current PhD Students

Bo Zhou (co-advising with Iulian Neamtiu) Amlan Kusum (co-advising with Iulian Neamtiu) Vineet Singh (co-advising with Iulian Neamtiu) Sai Charan Koduru Li Tan Yan Wang (co-advising with Iulian Neamtiu) Changhui Lin Kishore Kumar Pusukuri Min Feng

PhDs Graduated

• Chen Tian, Samsung R&D Center, San Jose
  
  • Dissertation: Speculative Parallelization On Multicore Processors
    (May 2010).
    


• Vijay Nagarajan, Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK
  
  • Dissertation: IMPRESS: Improving Multicore Performance and Reliability via Efficient Support for Software Monitoring
    (August 2009).
    
  
  
• Dennis Jeffrey, Google, Mountain view
  
  • Dissertation: Dynamic State Alteration Techniques for Automatically Locating Software Errors
    (August 2009).
    
  
  
• Sriraman Tallam, Google, Mountain view
  
  • Dissertation: Fault Location and Avoidance in Long-Running Multithreaded Applications
    (October 2007).
    
  
  
• Xiangyu Zhang, Assistant Professor, Purdue University, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: Fault Location Via Precise Dynamic Slicing (September 2006).
    Recipient of the SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2006.
    NSF CAREER Award, 2009.
    
  
  
• Bengu Li, Cray, St. paul, MN
  
  • Dissertation: Efficient Handling of Narrow Width and Streaming Data in Embedded Applications
    (May 2006).
    
  
  
• Arvind Krishnaswamy, Intel, Santa Clara
  
  • Dissertation: Microarchitecture and Compiler Techniques for Dual Width ISA Processors
    (May 2006).
    
  
  
• Jun Yang, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
  • Dissertation: Frequent Value Locality and its Application of Low Power Memory Design
    (September 2002).
    NSF CAREER Award, 2008.
    
  
  
• Youtao Zhang, Associate Professor, University of Pittsbugh, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: The Design and Implementation of Compression Techniques for Profile Guided
    Compilation (August 2002).
    NSF CAREER Award, 2005.
    
  
  
• Clara Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Chatam College, Dept. of Computer Science (first employment)
  
  • Dissertation: Source Level Debugging Techniques and Tools for Optimized Code,
    (August 2000).

• Rastislav Bodik, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: Path and Value Sensitive Code Optimizations (November 1999).
    Recipient of the SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2001.
    NSF CAREER Award, 2001.

• Soner Onder, Associate Professor, Michigan Technological University, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: Scalable Superscalar Processing (July 1999).
    NSF CAREER Award, 2004.

• Xin Yuan, Full Professor, Florida State University, Dept. of Computer Science
  
  • Dissertation: Dynamic and Compiled Communication in Optical Time-Division-Multiplexed
    Point-to-Point Networks (August 1998).

• Jodi Tims, Full Professor & Department Chair, Baldwin Wallace College, Dept. of Computer Science, Berea, Ohio
  
  • Dissertation: Integrating Automatic Data Distribution and Communication Optimization
    (July 1998).

• Wanqing Wu, Oracle Corporation, California (first employment)
  
  • Dissertation: On-line Avoidance of the Intrusive Effects of Monitoring of Distributed
    Applications (July 1998).

• Tia Watts, Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, Computer Science Department
  
  • Dissertation: MIST: An Approach to Integrating Restructuring Transformations and Multiple
    Scheduling Techniques (December 1997).

• David Berson, Synopsys, Portland
  
  • Dissertation: Unification of Register Allocation and Instruction Scheduling in Compilers for
    Fine-Grain Parallel Architectures (November 1996).

• Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM Research, Yorktown
  
  • Dissertation: A Demand Driven Approach for Efficient Interprocedural Data Flow Analysis
    (July 1996).

• Chun Gong, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond (first employment)
  
  • Dissertation: Fault Tolerant Computing on Distributed-Memory Systems: A Compiler
    Assisted Approach (September 1995).